Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-08-27

Advice to Father Who Has q Son WI
DsspIsea L.abor.

Advice to Father Who Has q Son Who
Dsspises Labor.
The following note, writes Bill Nye, ad-
dressed to the editor OF the World has
been passed over to my bureau for elucida-
editor Of the World. Please inform me
the best thing to do with a boy that won't
work In summer. NJ. i. b.
This was doubtless referred to me because
1 have given more attention to Human In
dustry than anything else perhaps. have
also been interested IN the accumulation OF
boys.
But to get right at the solution Of this
question, MIR. NJ L. B., without stopping
to Try and find out what your name is by
carefully scrutiniZing your initials, would
say at first blush that if had boy who
would not work IN summer would use him
as q winter boy. Nothing interests me
more, N. L. B., than the careful study of
boys. I would rather put on a baseball
mask and watch boy than to 90 stealthlly
into hole in a neglected canyon and pull
a grizzly bear cut by the tail. 1t is more
exciting, too.
But I think that industry among boys is
not making such fearful ravages as it did
when was q boy. Boys seem now to be
more able TO restrain themselves in the
matter of forming industrious habits and
do not become the slaves Of manual labor
can see that OVerdld 1t as boy, and
now that I am abundantly able to take life
easy and enjoy well-merited rest my whole
being seems to be so soaked in a morbid
desire TO work that even in England, where
it is looked upon with horror for a gentle
man to exert himself, L frequently lost
caste by doing chores around the barn.
In the South, where industry is con-
trOlled almost solely by cOlOred people, L
can see now that I lowered myself by CIV
ing way to This wild, uncomfortable yearn-
ing for toll.
So that boys should not be allowed to
think that Industry is the one thing for
which we were created. I wish I might say
this IN an impressive way, SO that boys
would heed It.
How would it do for the World to send
a man down to your house. NJ. L. B., and
see what he could do with your boy in
order to make him a summer boy?
The World wants to do what is right by
its readers, but the trouble is to get its
friends to harmonic on a policy. A few
weeks ago a subscriber for the paper wrote
to this office asking how to preserve water
melon inds so iLat they would not work
In summer, and here you come with a wild
and Macedonian cry for recipe that viii
make your boy work during the same try
ing season.
am anxious to adjust this matter so that
both of you vi ! be pleased, but I have a
good many other things to think OF, and it
Is hard to give your matter the time and
LnOugnL that II l6allF merits. would ike
to dwell at greater length upon the horrors
of Industry were it not for several far more
important questions that are waIllng here
for a reply.
On my desk there is pressing inquiry
as to the best method for the amsiomtion
of pimples which it will not do to ignore.
There Is also a tear-stained note from Ere
mont, Ohio, asking what to do to restore
animation and induce artificial respiration
in a hen that has fallen into the swill- bar
rel through no fault of hers. Another sub
scriber, ina spirit of badinage, L presume
for surely no one could be so ignOran -
asks what he can do to make his hydraulic
ram sing while melting.
So You can see, NJ. J.. b, that a man
| who answers all these questions during the
week and then writes the matter for thir-
| ty-two page Sunday paper is what might
! be termed busy man.
Some would tell you if yOar boy viii not
work in summer to fl him up with New
/ Orleans mOlasses and set him ia a warm
/ place, but that is no way to talk to parent
| 1 say either use him as a winter boy or
/ swap him with some man who has D boy
! that won't work IN winter.